Indiana University Bloomington Pregnancy and Parenting Portal

Statistics on Pregnancy and Parenting in College

Over 2 million college-aged women (ages 18-24) become pregnant each year.
Over a quarter (26%) of all undergraduate students (or 4.8 million) are raising dependent children.
Between 10 and 20 Indiana University Bloomington students report being pregnant to the Division of Student Affairs each academic year.
While not the majority of cases, a small number of students at IUB who identify as LGBTQ+ have also reported pregnancy to the Division of Student Affairs.
Unintended pregnancy rates are highest among low-income women, women aged 18-24, cohabitating women, and women of color.
According to a 2016 CDC report, the total reported number of legal, induced abortions performed in Indiana on Indiana residents between the ages of 15 and 44 was 6,767. Of the total number of legal, induced abortions reported by 48 states (623,471), the majority were performed on women in their twenties.
A study published in 2013 by researchers at the University of California - San Francisco concluded that women's reasons for seeking an abortion fall into 11 broad themes with the predominant themes being financial reasons (40%), timing (36%), partner related reasons (31%), and the need to focus on other children (29%).

4.8 Million College Students are Raising Children, Institute for Women's Policy Research, http://www.iwpr.org/publications/pubs/4.8-million-college-students-are-raising-children
Research, Pregnant on Campus, https://pregnantoncampus.studentsforlife.org/research/
Interview with Sally Thomas, Indiana University Bloomington Division of Student Affairs, 21 Feb. 2020
Unintended Pregnancy in the United States, Guttmacher Institute, https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-united-states
Abortion Surveillance - United States, 2016, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/ss/ss6811a1.htm
Abortions-Distributed-by-State-2016, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htm
Understanding why women seek abortions in the US, Biggs et al, BMC Women's Health, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3729671/